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The Award Season in Numbers

How much is the Golden Globes goodie bag worth, how long does it take to build the BRITs stage, and how many people called Oscar have won an Oscar?

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Gwyneth Paltrow said thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you 23 times, while accepting her 1998 Best Actress Oscar for Shakespeare In Love.

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So that egos are kept under control, each of the 40 dressing rooms at the BRITs are exactly the same size.

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At the Oscars’ reception, which takes place after the main ceremony, guests will be presented with 1,200 bottles of champagne, 1,000 spiny lobsters, 1,200 Kumamoto Oysters, and 18kg of caviar. Add to that about 7kg of edible gold dust for the 4,000 chocolate Oscar statues and you’ve got a feast worthy of an Oscar winner!

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At the 2012 Golden Globes, Sofia Vergara wore $5 million worth of Harry Winston diamonds with her mermaid Vera Wang gown, including diamond-covered earrings, bracelets, and a ring.

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29 - the age Adrien Brody was when he became the youngest ever Best Actor Oscar winner in 2003 for The Pianist.

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In 1959, there were 28 Grammy Awards; in 2015, there will be 83.

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£0 – how much it costs to enter a film for the BAFTAs.

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Did you know that, according to a 2001 study by the Annals of Internal Medicine, multiple Academy Award winners live up to six years longer than multiple losers.

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It takes 13 days to build the BRITs stage, production area and backstage area. And 60 lorries to carry the equipment.

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Number of times Quincy Jones has been nominated for a Grammy: 79.

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At this year’s Golden Globes, guests are expected to eat 10,000 pieces of sushi at the post-show parties.

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38.58 million - Average viewers of the Oscars in the last 10 years.

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Robbie Williams holds the record for the most Brit Awards, having won a total of 12 awards as a solo artist and another five as part of Take That.

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The Oscar statuette is not actually made of gold. It is a pewter-like alloy called brittanium, which is 93per cent tin, five per cent antimony and two per cent copper. It is then plated with gold.

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Over 9,000 Glasses of Moët & Chandon Grand Vintage Brut 2002 are served throughout the night at the Golden Globes. In case you’re wondering they’re $84.95 a bottle, so that’s about $84,950 of champagne.

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The longest Oscars ceremony was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg in 2002. It clocked in at a bum-aching 263 minutes.

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Judi Dench has six BAFTA wins, excluding her Fellowship award, under her belt.

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Michael Jackson and Santana both hold the record for the most Grammys won in one night - eight.

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One - the number of times the Golden Globes ceremony has been cancelled since it began in 1944. The 2008 awards had to be called off when Hollywood writers threatened to create picket lines and encourage actors to stay at home and support their cause. Instead, award winners were announced at a low-key press conference at the Beverly Hills Hilton.

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The famous seat-fillers at the Oscars earn $125 making the place look full.

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One - number of dead sheep that have been dumped at the BRITs post-awards dinner. The unfortunate creature was left by the acid, vegan band KLF in1992 shortly after they announced their retirement from the music industry.

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Desperate for an Oscar nod? Then nab yourself a role as a British monarch. It’s the most popular occupation of nominees with 19 actors being shortlisted for playing a GB monarch. In case you’re interested, here they all are:

Charles Laughton as Henry VIII in The Private Life of Henry VIIILaurence Olivier as Henry V in Henry VLaurence Olivier as Richard III in Richard IIIPeter O'Toole as Henry II in BecketPeter O'Toole as Henry II in The Lion in WinterRichard Burton as Henry VIII in Anne of the Thousand DaysKenneth Branagh as Henry V in Henry VNigel Hawthorne as George III in The Madness of King GeorgeColin Firth as George VI in The King's SpeechKatharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in WinterGeneviève Bujold as Anne Boleyn in Anne of the Thousand DaysJudi Dench as Victoria in Mrs. BrownCate Blanchett as Elizabeth I in ElizabethHelen Mirren as Elizabeth II in The QueenCate Blanchett as Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: The Golden AgeRobert Shaw as Henry VIII in A Man for All SeasonsHelen Mirren as Charlotte in The Madness of King GeorgeJudi Dench as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in LoveHelena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth in The King's Speech

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At the BRITs, 11.5km of cabling is set up – that’s five times the length of Oxford Street!

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You might not be surprised that hear that Meryl Streep has the most number of Golden Globe nominations but you might be surprised that she’s bagged herself a whooping 26 golden nods. She doesn’t have a bad success rate either and has won seven times.

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More than 300 experts sort the Grammy recordings into their appropriate categories.

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Security at the Oscars came under scrutiny in 2000, after 55 statuettes were stolen from a loading dock in LA. Fortunately they were found in a trash bin a few days later and the finder was rewarded with two tickets to the ceremony and $50,000, which was then stolen from his apartment.

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80,900 - number of Google hits for Natalie Portman’s chortle during her 2011 Best Actress acceptance speech at the Golden Globes.

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The oldest BAFTA nominee is John Gielgud, who was 92 when he was nominated in 1996 for his role in Shine.

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Poor Snoop Dogg! He’s been nominated for 14 Grammys but never won one. He’s up for Best Rap Song for Young, Wild & Free so maybe 2013 will be his year.

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The value of the Golden Globe gift bags in 2011 was an impressive $550!

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To qualify for the Best Picture Oscar, a film needs to be at least 40 minutes long, have shown at an LA cinema for at least a week the previous year, and have a projection resolution of 2048 x 1080 pixels.

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Guests at the BRITs will be glugging from over 15,000 glasses and kept from overheating by 5,500kg of ice.

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In 1989, the Best Actress Golden Globe was named a tie as three actresses took home the trophy. Judges couldn’t decide whether Jodie Foster, Shirley MacLaine or Sigourney Weaver deserved the prize, so they gave it to all three of them.

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15 minutes – the length of the shortest (and first) Oscar ceremony, in 1929. It was staged at the Roosevelt Hotel in California, and not filmed.

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The Grammys have over 17,500 submissions from record companies and academy members.

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Number of times Kate Winslet said the word “gather” in her infamous 2009 Golden Globes acceptance speech: two.

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How many Grammys do you think “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” Elvis won? Five? 10? Err – try just three.

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Disappointingly, there has only been one Oscar winner called Oscar. Oscar Hammerstein II who two gongs for Best Song in 1941 and 1945.

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The Golden Globes red carpet measures 30,000 square feet.

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$1 – how much Oscar winners can sell their award for. Winners are not allowed to put their awards up for public auction, but can choose to sell them back to the Academy.

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Titanic is the film that has had the most BAFTA nominations, but failed to win anything. There was a real sinking feeling as the 1997 flick received 11 nods but went home empty-handed.

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It’s been 55 years since celebrities began hosting the Golden Globes. Rat Pack-ers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. stormed the stage in 1958, armed with whiskeys and cigarettes, and took over the show.

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The biggest loser in Oscar history is Kevin O’Connell, a sound re-recording engineer, who, despite 20 nominations since his work on 1983′s Terms of Endearment, O’Connell has yet to win a single statue.

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Eight journalists founded the Golden Globes in 1943 when they were holding their annual luncheon at the 20th Century lot. The winners received scrolls of parchment, rather than the shiny little golden worlds of today. The Song Of Bernadette (pictured) won the first Best Film Golden Globe.

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Seven actors have the dubious honour of winning an Oscar and a Razzie. Laurence Olivier, Roberto Benigni, Liza Minnelli, Sandra Bullock, Charlton Heston, Halle Berry and Faye Dunaway are among this elite group!

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The legendary Sir Alfred Hitchcock was nominated for the Best Director Oscar five times but never won it.

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Four out of the five bands nominated for the Best British Group Awards in 1998, did not actually attend the ceremony itself. The Verve were crowned champions, but couldn’t bask in their glory as they were playing a one-off charity gig in Brixton. Aren’t they lovely lads?